Hawaii 2011

For my birthday, Josh said I could go to Hawaii to see my sister Amy and her family. So Josh, me, Jackson and Austin boarded the plane for Honolulu. We landed when it was nearly dark and so by the time we got to their apartment which is about 45 min away, we hadn't really seen anything besides car headlights. So the next morning when we woke up, this is what we saw out our bedroom window. It was absolutely beautiful. This is their church building that is right behind their apartment.

The sun was shining so I bet you can guess what was the first on my list of things to do...........

...... head to THE BEACH!!!!!

This is Amy's son Brennan who is 3 months younger than Jackson. Can you tell who lives in Hawaii? There is one kid with dark skin and white hair and one with white skin and dark hair.

Get a tan DUDE!

They live a few blocks from the beach so we loaded up the stroller and the wagon and headed for the beach. On the way we passed the LDS temple that they live right next to. I was so awesome. The Temple Beach is the first one that we went to and my favorite one. It is just directly out from the temple. I just loved it!

In the above picture you can see the temple in the background.

I love you Josh! Thanks for my birthday present and for going with me!

We put Austin and Amy's little Brooke in the stroller together. Brooke is 5 day younger than Austin.

We went to Pearl Harbor.

These flowers are everywhere. In many different colors.

We stopped off to see the dole plantation and ate some yummmmmyyyy dole whip!

I could go back just to eat some more of that deliciousness!

While we were there we were lucky that BYU Hawaii was having their annual food fest. We got to sample all kinds of different food from many all of the islands of the pacific. Brennan loved the noodles from Samoa.

At first Jackson didn't like the beach; not even the sand. He wanted to lay on the towel under Josh's shirt and he ended up falling asleep. What kid falls asleep at the beach?

You can see the trail that Jackson made with his bum as he was sliding down the hill saying that he was sledding. He finally decided that the sand was OK. He never ended up liking the water. I think the waves were too loud. Wimp?

We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. That was awesome. Our favorite part was when we went to the night program. It was so neat!

We took this picture on our walk back from the Polynesian Cultural Center. The mountains are so pretty! The building to the right of the church is their apartments.

Brennan fell asleep on the ride home.

This is the happy group!

Amy, I love you and miss you! Thanks for letting us stay with you. We had a great time. I am ready to go back.

Josh and I took Taylor's boogie board out and tried to learn how to ride the waves. It was very fun. Josh got pretty good. I was really good at getting crushed by the waves and getting rammed into the sand.

We went to the temple. The inside just got remodeled and it is very beautiful!

We are ready to go back.......who want to come?

Austin's baby blessing was on December 26th, 2011.

We had most of our family here.

Austin's older cousin Laura (of 12 days) was also blessed on the same day.

(I can't believe I didn't take a picture of them together) :(

Lock of Love

I cut off my hair and donated it to locks of love.

It's only hair right?

It will grow back if i don't like it.

Maybe I will keep it short.....who knows?

13 inches!

December 2010

December was full of fun as usual. Especially with one new little one in the mix.

This is the CRAZIEST kid ever! But we love him to Death!

I wanted to put this on here because this is one of the only pictures that I have of him looking. He can't hold still long enough for most pictures. He's so adorable right? Don't you just want to take him home???? You can.....really ....anytime you want to.

Our friends had a Christmas party. Here is the gang. Thanks Janae and Heath!

We had a fun time!

Waiting for the light parade to start.

BIG Brother!

Mr and Mrs. St. Nick.

This year for Josh's work party he decided to dress like Santa the morning of

so he told me to find something to go with it.

We had a great time.

This year we won an i pad. It was just pure luck.

We only put one or two tickets in the bag for the i pad and we put most of our tickets in other things that didn't have as many tickets in them.

We couldn't decide if we were going to keep it but we are really glad we did.

The kids love it of course.

Thank you Deckers!

Have you been a good girl this year?

Can you believe this was early December. The weather was beautiful!

Short sleeves????

We had an early December surprise.....Brad told us he was coming home on the 14th of December but then he showed up on the 3rd. It was a great surprise. He enjoyed his time at Basic Training and AIT Training

Jo came to see Brad and baby Austin.

Maybe some of us had a little too much fun.....???